The series
The Cardamom & Co. Mysteries
A spice and pastry shop on a Vermont town green, a pastry chef from Madras, an orange cat on a lead, and a town that does not stop being a town for anybody’s private catastrophe.
Book Two · forthcoming
A Grain of Salt
On a Friday evening in April, with the first crocuses up on the churned grass by the eastern hedge and the maples on the green in soft bud, Sheriff Marcus Chen will walk into Cardamom & Co. with a folder he has been keeping in a locked drawer.
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